Top Executives Gather at SEMICON Japan to speak about Technologies, Business and the Future

Top Executives Gather at SEMICON
Japan to Speak about Technologies, Business and the Future

The semiconductor industry and its supply chain are
facing technical and business challenges today. In this uncertain economy, each
company is required to make its own decisions on resource allocation for
challenges such as 450mm, EUVL, 3D-ICs, printed electronics and new transistor
architectures, and the decisions may eventually determine the future of the
company. At SEMICON Japan 2013 (December 4-6 at Makuhari, Japan),
global executives around the world will gather to share their opinions and
expertise with you — indispensable in helping you make strategic decisions for
your company.

Views on Industry-wide Growth
Strategies by Top Executives from Japan, the U.S. and Europe

On December 4, SEMICON Japan 2013 will start with the Opening Keynotes featuring three global executives to
speak about the industry growth into the future. The first speaker, Ryoji Chubachi,
president at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technologies, will present a scenario for Japanese semiconductor industry to
recover the brilliance it had in the past.
He sees the total strength of entire semiconductor supply chain from
materials and equipment to device still exists in Japan and facilitating open
innovations will lead Japan to resume the position in the global semiconductor
industry.

The second speaker, Ajit Manocha, CEO at GLOBALFOUNDRIES,
will examine the evolution and future of the foundry model, the technical and
business drivers reshaping the landscape, and how fabless and IDM companies
must change their perspective on what has worked in the past, regardless of how
you define leading edge.

Lastly, the third speaker, Paul Boudre, CEO at Soitec,
will illustrate how engineered substrates technologies can bring innovation by
pushing “Moore’s law” and “More Than Moore” further in the mobile era where the
electronic industry is driven by the “always connected” trend and the
insatiable user demand for faster processing, increased data rates and longer
battery life.

Win-Win Collaboration and Partnership
Success Stories Given by SMIC and CSR

With the acceleration of technology innovations and
diversification of customer needs, semiconductor value chain players are
required to optimize their research and development activities besides
improving productivities. For this, effective and “win-win” collaborations
among the partners including foundries, IDMs, fabless, equipment and materials
suppliers is indispensable.

On
December 4, the GSA Forum, cosponsored by SEMI and the Global
Semiconductor Association and chaired by Shozo Saito, executive advisor at Toshiba, will deliver presentations
on “win-win” collaboration and partnership strategies by two GSA directors,
Tsu-Yin Chiu, CEO at SMIC and Joep van Beurden, CEO at CSR plc. SMIC has
expanded its foundry business through collaborations with fabless companies in
China and Europe. CSR has sold its cellphone technologies to Samsung in 2012 to
focus on its more profitable core businesses. The presentations will be
followed by a panel discussion with the above speakers and executives from
ATREG, Tokyo Electron and JSR.

450mm Updates in the Face of Industry
Adoptions

SEMICON shows in key semiconductor manufacturing regions
have been served to the industry as a venue for information exchange and
sharing for an efficient transition to 450mm production. At SEMICON Japan 2013,
you will find critical information both on the show floor and in the technical
sessions, but reserving your seat at 450mm Executive Forum on December 5 is a “must.”

In this forum, Paul Farrar, general manager at G450C will
talk about how the IC makers and the Equipment suppliers are working together
to reduce the cost of the transition through the G450C consortium activities at
CNSE and the current status of those activities, key milestones and
schedules. Roger De Keersmaecker, imec’s
EVP, sees how a chip cost reduction by 30 percent can follow from transitioning
to a 450mm wafer due to an increased manufacturing efficiency, but he also
recognizes major innovations needed to achieve this cost reduction.

From
the equipment community, Nikon and Tokyo Electron will present the recent
progress in the equipment development. Kazuo Ushida, EVP and president of
Precision Equipment Company at Nikon, will discuss how Nikon offers 450mm
lithography solution by extending its proven 193 immersion core technology.
Tokyo Electron’s VP and GM at SPE Marketing & Process Development Division,
Akihisa Sekiguchi, will talk about the company’s 450mm tool development status,
current problems and issues, and lessons learned so far from this challenge.

ARM Japan President to Speak at SEMI
Market Seminar

With improved ASPs, Flash and DRAM companies are
increasing investments for advanced technologies and capacity expansion in
2014. In addition, spending by pure
foundry players will also dominate the 2014 equipment spending outlook. At 2013
year-end, the SEMI Market Seminar will examine the semiconductor supply
chain market for the next years. As a keynote to this session, Yuzuru Utsumi, president
at ARM K.K., will talk about market trends, the ARM vision for the future and
the latest technologies from the stand point of semiconductor IP market leader
with a more than 95 percent share of the smartphone and tablet market.

IHS
Global’s Japan office representative, Akira Minamikawa, will then give the
electronics market trends in the next ten years and how these will affect the
semiconductor market growth. Hiroshi Kusama, the chairman of WSTS Japan
Chapter, will present the organization’s autumn 2013 forecast that is scheduled
to be press released just before SEMICON Japan 2013. Finally, Daniel P. Tracy, senior
director of Industry Research and Statistics at SEMI will discuss the SEMI 2013
year-end semiconductor equipment forecast and the latest materials market
forecast.

SEMICON Japan SuperTHEATER will
Present More Executive Programs

While comprehensive, this summarizes only some of the
executive programs offered at this year’s SEMICON Japan. The above mentioned
programs (except the Market Seminar) will be presented at SEMICON Japan
SuperTHEATER, which will have nine such high-level programs in total during the
three days. To learn more about the SuperTHEATER and other SEMICON Japan’s over
100 hours of presentations and content, visit the SEMICON Japan website at www.semiconjapan.org/en.